| NOUN | attribute | maleness, masculinity | the properties characteristic of the male sex |
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| Meaning | The properties characteristic of the male sex. | |
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| Synonym | masculinity | |
| Narrower | virility | The masculine property of being capable of copulation and procreation |
| Broader | sex, gender, sexuality | The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles |
| Opposite | femaleness, feminineness | The properties characteristic of the female sex |
| Spanish | masculinidad | |
| Catalan | masculinitat | |
| Adjectives | male | being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation |
| male | for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys | |
| male | characteristic of a man | |
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